This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I had to have a drink today to stop my hand from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again.
so pass the bottle around make sure to hold it down cause it is the only warmth we'll find tonight in this whole damned town
that's what happens when we live our lives as strangers we hide from all our failures or will we ever learn
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again
and isn't this ashamed we only found each other through greed, through loss and pain
and if it doesn't kill thus can we say it made us stronger, we lost a friend and brother or will we ever learn
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking cause i let you down again.
so pass the bottle around make sure to hold it down cause it is the only warmth we'll find tonight in this whole damned town
that's what happens when we live our lives as strangers we hide from all our failures or will we ever learn
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again
and isn't this ashamed we only found each other through greed, through loss and pain
and if it doesn't kill thus can we say it made us stronger, we lost a friend and brother or will we ever learn
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking to stop these tears from running down my face, when i heard the news i knew that i have failed you, i wasn't there to save you and i let you down again
i had to have a drink today to stop my hands from shaking to keep my heart from breaking cause i let you down again.
Lyrics submitted by dobinator
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I've no idea how to edit lyrics, but I think some of them are wrong here, like "and isn't this ashamed we only found each other through greed, through loss and pain and if it doesn't kill thus"
I think it should be "and isn't this a shame we only found each other through grief, through loss and pain and if it doesn't kill us"
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